10Interview with Davi Barker by Sean Keene………………………………………………………………14Stop being a 99% victim…………………………………………………………………………………………….16Green’s Greens………………………………………………………………………………………………………….18ISSUETHREEagoristreport.comRich Paul is now serving a 12month sentence imposed at theKeene Spiritual Retreat, a sus-pended prison sentence, probationof three years, and a $650 ﬁne.- The Agorist Report Staff“This issue of The Agorist Report isdedicated to Rich Paul. Rich facedan 81 year sentence and while hecould have taken the easy way out

by wearing a wire or going with

a plea bargain he did the right thingby rejecting the notion that he hadever done anyone any harm.”We are happy to announce we have launched our new blog at AgoristReport.com. In the coming weeks wewill be offering printed versions of issues 1-3 on demand. We are also starting our much anticipated Artistof Agora gallery. We are accepting submissions from all Agorist artists through our email and contact page.Please include a link to your primary gallery, a short bio, and a couple samples of your art. The gallery willbe sorted by category as well as a new featured artist every couple months. Currently we have submissionsunder Physical works, Digital art, and Music.The Agorist Report has official Bitcoin and Litecoin addresses which can be found on the blog, please con-sider donating. Thanks in advance for your support.3What follows is my responseto a question that was postedon theRugatuwebsite ask-ing,“What is the legal statusof Bitcoin?”.While it is true that the UNITEDSTATES (or, as I like to call it, theAmerican Federal Empire) Trea-sury Department issued rules(or rather guidelines) regardingBitcoin ﬁnancial transactions,the fact is that Bitcoin is an in-ternational phenomenon… So,the joke is on the regulators. TheAmerican Federal Empire hasno authority or power to regu-late Bitcoin! Nor, for that matter,does any other “government”.Sure, they can issue arbitrarydecrees for anyone within theartiﬁcial lines drawn on a mapover which they say they rule,but can they enforce? There is areason this is called a “cryptocur-rency” people. They may bringthe hammer down on a personhere or there, but their eﬀortsare futile, especially if peopletake on the attitude that thesecriminal gangsters have no pow-er or place here, and simply ig-nore their impotent decrees, asshould be done.I, for one, will not comply withThe Empire or their so-called“laws”. Many, many others willalso ignore this shriveling Em-pire which is withering awayas we speak. The Empire’s cur-rency is weakening and withinour lifetimes will break… Thatis why Bitcoin has taken holdas it has. When that breakhappens, The Empire will die…Plain and simple.Now, here is the big secret(which really isn’t that secret)…if you look into the history of theconcept of Bitcoin, where theidea started and who the earlyphase � and phase � adoptersare, you’ll discover that the de-struction of The Empire is thegoal of these people, and a Bit-coin-like concept has alwaysbeen seen as a tool to achievethat goal. The idea of Bitcoincame out of the crypto-anar-chist Cypherpunk movementof the mid-��s, and the earliestadopters of the currency havelargely been people in the “lib-erty movement” (libertarian,voluntarist and anarchist move-ment), especially participants inthe Free State Project in NewHampshire (as evidenced by thefact that the largest concentra-tion of Bitcoins held in any onegeographic region has been re-ported to be New Hampshire).To sum it up, Bitcoin smashesempires… That is what it wasdesigned to do. The “legal sta-tus” of Bitcoin is irrelevant.These gangsters calling them-selves “government” reallydon’t get the internet, and theycertainly don’t get Bitcoin. Theydon’t understand that it is thedoom of their power.They can write all the rules onpaper that they want to. It willbe meaningless. Magic scrollsonly exist in Dungeons & Drag-ons games… The decrees ofthese criminals have no suchmagic and should be treated asthe impotent babblings of theignorant that they are.BitcoinSmashesEmpiresby R.U. Phree,Anti-Political Editorfor Illicit Underground4opengarden.comYou Are the NetworkFree and seamless peer-to-peerInternet networking software.Crowdsource your connectivity. Install Open Garden.5Wayne Sturgeon has been activein the UK anarchist movementsince the early ��s originallythrough playing drums in a hostof anarcho-punk bands mostnotably “Karma Sutra” from Lu-ton in Bedfordshire in the UK. Hewould describe himself principlyas a Christian Anarchist.Wayne:

Could you introduceyourselves and what mo-tivated you to publish andedit the book “Markets NotCapitalism”?Gary:One thing I’ve learned,painfully, over time is not tospeak for other people, at leastnot too conﬁdently.But I cansaythat all of us actively involvedin the work of theCenter for

a Stateless Societyare verymuch aware of the sterility ofmost political and social debateand the failure to recognize thatthere might well be positionsother than those represented by

“Team Red” and “Team Blue.”There’s a vibrant tradition ofindividualist anarchism whichis simultaneously pro-marketand anti-state on the one handand thoroughly left-wing on theother. There have been greatcontributions to this traditionin the past, by such people asThomas Hodgskin(once editorof The Economist—the worldwas very diﬀerent then) andBenjamin Tucker; but there’salso been some much more re-cent and creative work in thistradition. We wanted to exposepeople to both the earlier stuﬀand the more recent develop-ments, which we believe havethe potential to shake up bothmarket-oriented libertarian andsocial anarchist conversationsand oﬀer people new and,wehope, fruitful ways of looking atpolitics and society.Wayne:

You deﬁne your bookas promoting individualistanarchism against bosses, in-equality, corporate power, andstructural poverty, could youdeﬁne what you mean by indi-vidualist anarchism and how itdiﬀersmaybefromotherformsof anarchism historically?Gary:

All varieties of anarchismare anti-authoritarian, obviously(if they weren’t, they wouldn’t beanarchtist). But clearly there arediﬀerences in the ways in whichvarious anarchist tendenciesimagine the shape of life withoutthe state and the mechanismsthat would be used to maintainsocial order in a stateless society.One way to think about individu-alist anarchism—Charles, whoknows the history much betterthan I do will oﬀer considerablenuance here, I’m sure—mightbe as a variety of anarchism thatfavors robust protections—in-cluding legal protections—forthe rights of particular persons,including rights to several prop-erty that are, broadly speaking, la-bor-based. Of course, this kind ofdescription might apply to somevarieties of anarcho-syndicalism,too. The devil is in the details, andthe divisions often seem starkerwhen discussions focus on theorythan when they concern practice.Wayne:

What do you think ofAgorism as deﬁned by SamuelEdward Konkin?GaryChartierby Wayne SturgeonAn interview with6Gary:

Konkin was an interestingand diﬃcult person fromwhomIthink we’ve all learned a lot, evenif his dodgy associations withfolks like those at the IHR meanthat some things he had to sayought to be taken with the pro-verbial grain of salt. But the basicidea that the right way to ﬁghtthe state is to render it irrelevantby creating counter-institutionsseems really helpful—far morehelpful than approaches that fo-cus on winning electoral victories,say. I’m not opposed in principleto any non-violent strategy forsocial change, but I think counter-institutional strategies like agor-ism and seasteading oﬀer morepromise than ones that involveactivists penning their hopes onthe hero on a white horse.Wayne:

Most people whenthinking of “right wing” lib-ertarianism tend to envisagea world almost like the Sci Fiﬁlm “Robocop” i.e.privatisedpolice forces in a world ran bymulti-national corporationswithout any state interven-tion or regulation etc. Whatwould a left libertarian viewbe on the market provision oflaw and order, police, criminalcourts and prisions etc?Gary:

The best way to underminethe power of big businesses, cor-porate and otherwise, is surely toeliminate their privileges—includ-ing what Tucker called the “fourmonpolies” (land, money/bank-ing/credit, tariﬀ,IP) andtheirmorerecent successors, which Charleshas very nicely delineated in thebook. Absent those privileges,grassroots alternatives to corpo-rate service provision could springup and ﬂourish.I would expect arange of such alternatives, withdispute resolution services pro-vided by coops, religious groups,charities, and for-proﬁt entities;similar entities, along with volun-teer groups, could oﬀer defenseagainst large-scale but intermit-tent aggression. I am not readyto concede that anyone has everneeded to provide prisons, perse; if anything like this did provenecessary, the kind of option dis-cussed in Bob Murphy’s “ChaosTheory” is, I suppose, as appeal-ing as anything else. But prisonsare pretty dreadful, and I’d like tokeep focused on alternatives.Wayne:

Do you think that leftlibertarian market anarchismgiven its historical associationwith the mutualism of Proud-hon can be a place where com-mon ground can be establisedwith anarcho-syndicalist orGuild Socialist traditions etc?Gary:

Sure—absolutely. I thinkKevin Carson, in particular, hasdone a lot of working showinghow eliminating state-securedprivilege could pave the way forincreased worker ownership andworker self-management.Wayne:

Given the left libertar-ian defence of private prop-erty and voluntary exchangein a free market and the ac-tual “socialist” implicationsif this were to be univer-salised—does left libertari-anism share close aﬃnitieswith the “distributism” ofcatholic writersG.K. Chester-tonandHilaire Belloc?Gary:

I have a lot of aﬀectionfor Chesterton, and my Englishfriend Stephen R. L. Clark, a self-proclaimed libertarian-cum-an-archo-conservative, has writtenappreciatively about him in a vari-ety of places. My sense is that thedistributists seemed to envisionsome kind of state action as need-ed to bring about the kind of soci-ety they favored, and of course I’ddisagree about that. But the spiritof the distributists is one I ﬁndin many ways quite simpatico. Itreminds me of the approach offolks on this side of the pond whoresisted the rise of widespreadwage-labor in the latter part of thenineteenth century as disempow-ering and an assault on people’sdignity. I relish the distributists’appreciation for local particularity(I thoroughly enjoy the work ofBillKauﬀman, an American Catholicanarchist who keeps this themevery much alive). Of course, I’malso a cosmopolitan—I’m deeplyattached to a region, southernCalifornia, which is itself very mul-ticultural and open to the wider7ence. But, having said that, I reallydo think the distributists have thepotential to be very useful andengaging conversation partnersfor left-wing market anarchists ofour sort.world, and perhaps that’s why;

I realize that local tyrannies can bejust as dreadful as national ones,and I wouldn’t want to romanti-cize away the problems close-knitlocal communities can experi-TheAnnualJackalope Freedom Festivalis happening again!Stay tuned forissue � in whichwe’ll explore parttwo of this inter-view with C�SS’Charles Johnson.WHERE STATISM COMES TO DIE ANDTHE FREE MARKET COMES TO PREVAIL!Aug 2nd - 4th in BacaMeadows. The one andonly completely freefreedom festival. The fes-tival is located in north-ern Arizona, just east ofForest Lakes near BlackCanyon lake.Bands attending:Captain Squeegee, Dan Hagen,Lee Perreira, and Fetti Profoun.If you have a band that is lookingto get in on the line up, please usethe contact form on the website.People who attend are encour-aged to vend.There is no regis-tration or permission required.The festival abides by the NAP(Non-aggression principle). Camp-ing spaces are on a ﬁrst comeﬁrstserve basis. There is no lack ofspace. Bring appropriate items.Visit the website to seewho is in the Market.To Name a few: Marc Ste-vens, Ernest Hancock, MarcVictor, Shelton (4409), AgoristMarketplace, Magpoch Farm, Mid-night Munchies, and many more.Please use the contact form if youwould like to add yourself to themarketplace.Accepted donations forport a pottys, visit the web-site for more information:

www.jackalopefreedomfestival.com.Please feel free to come early andstay late. Hope to see you all there!Silly statists! Taxes are for Slaves!IIJackfest II8Sean:What do you consideryourself politically?Eddie:For most of my adultlife I always considered myselfand a libertarian until just re-cently. After reading Linda andMorris Tannehill’s “The Marketfor Liberty”, along with MurrayRothbard’s “Man, Economy,and State”, I most closely relatemyself politically as a volun-taryist/anarcho-capitalist.Sean:What projects are youcurrently working on?Eddie:I’m currently workingon ﬁnding solutions to save

a small sustainable communityin North Carolina. The countyhas shut it down for lack ofvarious permits and healthcode violations that we feel arefrivolous and unwarranted.Sean:What inspired AgoraSeed Exchange?Eddie:The inspiration for Ag-ora Seed Exchange began lastsummer while participating incivil disobedience in deﬁanceof the FDA. After developinga deeper understanding ofthe state’s war on small farmsand real food, the reality ofour lack of access to real nutri-tion, along with the dangers ofGMOs, it became clear to methat organic heirloom seedsare in danger of cross contam-ination and eventually extinc-tion. I teamed up with MelissaMoran, an organic farmer fromNew York state, we decided touse heirloom seeds as not onlya commodity in the market-place, but as a way of insuringthe health of our communitythrough organic farming andsustainability.Sean:Where can potencialcustomers view your prod-ucts? Do you accept alterna-tive currencies?Eddie:At the moment folks canpurchase our heirloom seedsfrom our Facebook page AgoraSeed exchange.Right now we’re bartering,accepting cash, checks, moneyorders and Paypal, but in thefuture we plan on a acceptingbitcoin and any precious metalsuch as silver.Sean:Where do you see Ago-ra Seeds in the furture?Eddie:I see the future of theAgora Seed Exchange expand-ing and bringing the ideas offood freedom, organic farm-ing, and sustainability.Sean:What advice do youhave for aspiring Agorists?Eddie:To those who are aspir-ing agorists, I would tell themto not listen to naysayers andjust go with what they feel, withwhat their gut is telling them,and really just jump right inand do it.a8910There are many darknet servicesavailable to even novice Cryp-toAnarchists. The two networksthat I am going to cover in this ar-ticle are I�p and the Tor network.Both networks have distinguish-able advantages and disadvan-tages because they use diﬀerentmethods to produce results.In order to know which optionworks best for you, It is impor-tant to determine your own spe-ciﬁc needs and go forward fromthere. This article is meant to be

a guide to the absolute begin-ner, I’ve been using Tor andother darknet services for

a little over � years now. Anyquestions you have can besubmitted on the new AgoristReport blog contact page under“Ask an Agorist”.TorThe ﬁrst network I want to coveris the signiﬁcantly more popular,Tor network. For those new tohow Tor works, essentially traﬃcis sent from the original “node” to� other nodes then it is then for-warded to the destination. Tor isalso encrypted with AES-��� and

a public key system.Onions arethe Tor equivalent of websites.Only people using the Tor net-work can use them. Onions areone of many hidden servicesthat Tor oﬀers. Download andinstallation information can befound at Torproject.org.The strengths of Tor largely layin it’s popularity. This creates

a considerable speed diﬀer-ence compared to other small-er networks like I�p or Freenet.Tor also has a wide variety ofhidden services these includestock photo by spekulatorby Psychonot for Illicit Underground11but are not limited to email,IRC servers, and Onion host-ing. The Tor network also does

a good job of protecting againsttraﬃc analysis type attacks,this means even if somebodywould be able to look into thedata passing through nodesthe location and content couldnot be determined.The main weakness of Tor is the“bad exit node” or exit nodesthat sniﬀ data sent throughthem. While this will not com-promise the anonymity of theuser it can lead to data beingcompromised. When usingthe Tor network be sure totake all the security measuresyou would when using anyuntrusted network ie encrypteverything, usehttps, and don’tsend passwords in plain text.In order for Tor to work atoptimum strength you mustenable your computer to be

a Tor node. This can be done bygoing into your Vidalia settings.Under the “Sharing” tab you willhave a couple options for thekind of node you want to run.Recently an exploit embeddedin many Tor onions was discov-ered targeting Firefox �� on Win-dows OS systems. The exploitwas a malicious script whichsent an un-toriﬁed message toan unknown server. It targetedFirefox �� because that was theversion “Tor Bundle” used. Thisonly highlights the importanceof taking the needed securitysteps to ensure security and inthis case using “NoScript” theway it was intended.I�PI�p is quite a bit diﬀerent fromTor mechanically. Instead ofjust masking the identity of thesender like Tor, I�p providestwo way anonymity using anIP overlay system. Like Tor, I�poﬀers a variety of other ser-vices other than a web proxysuch as eep sites (I�p’s Onionequivalent), Irc servers, p�p,instant messaging, etc. Thesevarious services use “tunnels”(inbound and outbound) fromeach node to connect the userto a destination. Download andinstallation information can befound atwww.i�p�.de.The biggest strength of I�p isthe ability to customize your ex-perience weighing anonymity vsspeed. The user has an option ofsetting the number of “jumps”each tunnel takes before it willforward you to the destination.The I�p network is much moredistributed than Tor which hascentral points of weakness suchas the central directory.Most of I�p’s weaknesses comefrom network size which is mi-croscopic compared to a net-work like Tor. This can causehigh latency and makes thenetwork susceptible to bruteforce type attacks.Do You likeIf so, then please donate, because…image by broadbandgenie.co.uk12I�p in C rather than Java, Tor isgrowing in numbers every day,and Bitcoin is making it easy tomake quick untraceable dona-tions.I’ve done my best to put thisinto beginner language, if youhave any questions be sure tosend them to the new blog atAgoristReport.com.On a closing note, when usingTor take all the security pre-cautions you would on any un-trusted network. And remem-ber security and anonymity aretwo very diﬀerent things.The future of darknet tech-nology is evolving at a veryvapid pace; there is currentlya project underway to rewriteimage byMi mar conceprualRecommended Firefox addonsHTTPS EverywhereNoScriptGhosteryCs LiteRequest PolicyAdBlock Pluscomingsoonpodcast13www.facebook.com/

TheBenevolentOrderOfAgoristHunters14Sean:What do you consideryourself politically?Davi:The term that rings mosttrue for me as a label is “volun-taryist.” I view agorism as a strat-egy more than an ideology orphilosophy. For distinction’s sakeI think of agorism as voluntaryismin action. But I don’t shy away fromother terms if the situation callsfor it. I’m comfortable with “an-archist” in radical company, andI’m comfortable with “libertarian”in a more mainstream venue. I’malways eager to move passed thelabels and begin discussing whatpeople are advocating in empiri-cal terms. For me political issuesalmost always come back to theproper role of violence as a tool.Sean:What projects are youcurrently working on?Davi:I’m working on a lot of proj-ects right now. I’m the assistantdirector ofMuslims�Liberty.org,a marketing agent forSilverCir-cleMovie.com, the editor of Dai-lyAnarchist.com and the graphicdesigner for DontTreadOnMeme.com. But my two primary projectsareShinyBadges.comandBitcoin-NotBombs.com. Shiny Badges iswhere I sell the soft enamel me-tallic lapel pins that went viral atLiberty Forum this year. It’s beena huge success, and I’m add-ing new designs all the time. Mylapel pins are now worn by bignames in the liberty movementlike Derrick J, Ben Stone, JeﬀereyTucker and Roger Ver. And in myexperience wearing them theybring curious people to you in

a way that t-shirts and buttons justdon’t. Bitcoin Not Bombs is whatI’m most excited about. I’m work-ing with Drew Phillips, famous forhis silver dime cards, to developpremium publicity campaigns de-signed to launch NGOs and socialentrepreneurs into the ﬁnancialfreedom of the Bitcoin economy.DaviBarkerInterviewwithby Sean Keene15want to manifest Samuel EdwardKonkin’s vision of voluntary insti-tutions emerging to replace theircoercive counterparts.Sean:What advice do you havefor aspiring Agorists?Davi:Diversify. You want to de-velop multiple income streamsso if one fails, and some will, youhave something to fall back on.Dependence is the opposite of in-dependence, and we never com-promise so much as when ourlivelihood is dependent on go-ing along to get along. Also, don’tbe afraid to ask for what you’reworth, or to pay others what theyare worth. I think most of us havea strong DIY enthusiasm, but thisis often not the most eﬀectiveuseof our time and talents. Be willingto hire someone, pay a vendor,rely on a service provider, or takea partner if it will free you up tofocus where you are most eﬀec-tive. And in return, don’t sell your-self short. Acknowledge whereyou have expertise, and whatthat is worth. Master your nicheand don’t be afraid to get paid foryour eﬀorts.I think we are all farmore valuable than we imagine.Finally, don’t be discouraged byfailure. It’s only an opportunity toimprove. Failure is a market sig-nal, and if you read those signalscorrectly they will provide thekeys to your success. Life is nine-ty-nine percent mistakes and onepercent viable mutations.We’re currently working withFr��Aid.com,AntiWar.comandFreeStateProject.orgto maximizetheir fundraising eﬀorts at BitCon���� next month, and PorcFest Xthe following month.Sean:What inspired your newbook Voluntary Islam?Davi:It was really inspired by myown personal journey, becauseIslam and Voluntaryism are bothcreeds I converted into. There isa sense in which I believe peopleare born with both, but embrac-ing them explicitly was somethingI did as an adult after earnestseeking. I’ve also observed thatboth communities are horriblymaligned and misrepresented bytheir opponents. Both Muslims,and libertarians generally aredemonized, stereotyped, scape-goated, and disenfranchised,perhaps more than any othercreeds in American society. I be-lieve this is because both creedsrepresent a danger to illegitimatepower, so I thought it was impor-tant to present the argument andthe evidence that there exists anintense conﬂuence of values be-tween these creeds.Sean:Where can potential cus-tomers view and purchaseyour products? Do you acceptalternative currencies?Davi:I like to say, “I accept silver,Bitcoin, and for a limited timeeven Federal Reserve Notes.”And it’s a little bit of a joke, but italso happens to be true. Whetherwhen I discover suﬃcient Agoristalternatives to live without thedollar, or when the dollar ﬁnallycollapses, I expect to eventuallyno longer accept Federal ReserveNotes. I just don’t know when.For now, the best place to see myproducts isShinyBadges.com.Sean:Where do you see yourprojects in the future?Davi:Bitcoin Not Bombs is

a young project, in fact the sitejust went live today, but we arefully committed to being the hubof the nonproﬁt sector of theBitcoin economy. We want to fa-cilitate organizations seeking toadopt Bitcoin as a payment sys-tem, and we want to maximizingthe potential cross promotionoﬀ all our clients and commer-cial partners. But the long termvision of the project is entirelyAgorist in nature. The advent ofBitcoin has produced a genera-tion of spontaneously wealthyyoung entrepreneurs. We hopethat our eﬀorts to help theseorganizations fully capitalizeon the fundraising potential ofjoining the Bitcoin economy willproduce a generation of spon-taneously wealthy charities, mu-tual aid organizations, schools,hospitals, and postal services alloperating outside of the Stateregulated economy. In short, we16You shout this at the top ofyour lungs as if you knowwhat it means. Although, ifyou really are rebelling – thatis, cutting yourself from thecord of tyrants – you aremost certainly not ��% of thepopulation.��% may not be implementingthe agenda of psychopaths,but ��% of us are also not nec-essarily doing anything aboutit. If the odds really did add upto that, the real counter-worldwould not have the challengewe do to get the real ��% awayfrom the plasma screen formore than ten minutes to lookat what the government thatrepresents them are doing.They do NOT represent meand they do NOT representyou if you can read this withoutcognitive dissonance.It is an insult to anyone seriouslyremoving themselves fromtyranny to put us in league withdrooling masses currently pay-ing tribute, working at banks,collecting the government dole,voting for tweedle dee andtweedle dumb. The rest of ushave worked hard to break ourdependence, and that ��% donot deserve the same credit.Those who read into a smallfraction of the mystery like theeconomy or Zionism stop look-ing as if they’re at the apex ofthe problem. The truth is that itis not some people in govern-ment; it is all government. It isnot some people in control; itis the sickness that is the needto control. And your need to becontrolled because you’re tooafraid to make decisions forand defend yourself.stop being a 99% victimbyjess gendron17No, I’m afraid that if wewere the ��%, the situationwould not be so grave. If thatgreat a number were reallyworking against control, wewould already be in controlof our own lives. Unless whatyou mean is that ��% of usare neutrally sitting aroundquoting relatively subversivemovies like V For Vendetta orbitching about their moneyon Wall Street then, my apol-ogy, you are the ��%.But it takes so much more thanthat. These bizarre circusesexcite the inherent rebellionin all of us, just enough thatyou feel satisﬁed withoutdoing anything about yourown livelihood’s dependenceon tyranny. The truth is thatfew of us actually want anend to tyranny because wewouldn’t know where the nextmeal would come from. Thisis because we haven’t takenthe responsibility to ensure itthrough our own self worth,not our buying power. This isbecause they haven’t takenthe responsibility to ensure itthrough their own self worth,not their buying power.You have a credit card, a mort-gage -- you have worked forthem all of your life -- yet youinsultingly call yourself the ��%because you can’t get a job inthe food court and this is whyyou repeat these mind-numb-ing memes. The point is not tobring the corporate jobs back.Do you get it yet? The point is toeliminate the need for them.Americans are most proﬁcientat this because they have insti-tuted the ﬁrst voluntary slav-ery. This degrading workforcewhere you repeat whateverequally mind-numbing sloganthat your respective bosses tellyou to, to avoid the “horrors”of manual labor. The madnesscontinues because we work forthem more than we work forourselves. When we lose theopportunity to support the ma-chine, we complain about nothaving the boon to mankindthat is voluntary wage slavery.No, I’m afraid that if you under-stand this, you are not amongthe ��% of us!The alternative is to work to-gether in a way that soon wewon’t need the outside to agreewith us. If we can produce ourown food and technologiesthen it will be soon. What theydo will not aﬀect us andit won’tbe a matter of getting the con-trollers to stop what they aredoing, it will simply be a matterof continuing what we do forourselves.If you’re in debt, get out of debtsoon. It makes no matter howyou do that, some may chooseto sell their consumer junk toachieve that, while others maychoose to use a debt cancella-tion service. Either way, untilyou get out of debt you’ll alwaysbe a wage slave.Stop being someone’s wageslave. For some of you it mayrequire that you become SELFEMPLOYED, and for others itmay mean going oﬀ the gridand becoming truly SELF SUF-FICIENT!Stop being controlled by theestablishment media and poli-ticians who know all the rightbuzz words to activate yourmind to their beneﬁt.Until you become really FREE,all the bitching in the worldwill only be a pressure releasevalve that the powers that beknow only too well how to use;and all the bitching in the worldwill only work to keep you inthis rotting corrupt system.Jess Gendron is currently livingand working on a self sustainingranch.He is the author of soon to bepublished, Fighting Fire With Wa-ter and co-author of SurvivingSurvivalism.Fightingﬁrewithwater.comSurvivingsurvivalism.com18Green's GreensThis is one of my garden beds made out of concrete blocks. It isvery simple to build and cheap to purchase. Just line them up,stack, and ﬁll it up with soil.If I can do it,anyone can.Growingyour own food is key to self suﬃciency,freedom,preservinggenetic diversity, building a strong independent community,eating healthy and safe fresh foods. It’s proactive, peaceful, edu-cational, and a big FU to Monsanto and their GMO’s. It truly isdirect change and we can all do it! So let’s start!Italian Dandelion. Yes, Dande-lions are edible and medicinal.The Italian Dandelions growblue and are completely dif-ferent looking ﬂowers fromthe Dandelion we normally seegrowing as a weed. But bothkinds are great to grow andtheir leaves can be harvestedfor consumption.1819Mojito Mint is one of my favoritekinds of mint. Great for eatingraw, putting in smoothies, mak-ing tea, and of course, makingMojitos with Mojito mint and

a few drops of lime.Egg plants popping in!Bell peppers growing in the 5 gallon bucket. Even if havelimited space, you can grow food in pots and recycled foodgrade buckets!This is the Japanese Kabocha Squash growing in harmonywith the Birds of Paradise. The birds of paradise was alreadygrowing when we moved in. I did not want to remove themto make more growing space. So I decided to incorporate anduse them as the trellis for the squash to climb on.1920